AN: SO it's Ignus again and I'm here to tell you that this chapter is the last chapter of Part One.

However, don't worry; it may be the end but it's not THE end. So stay tuned for Part Two of this series, which is called 'Senseless Doneness'. Chapter One will be released some time in the next 24 hours. I hope you enjoy this final chapter, and Cyrro and I hope to see you in Part Two. Ignus out.

Gaara sees Naruto step out of the trees.

"Gaara!" Naruto challenges. "This fight will be you and me and our Bijuu - and my summons." he bites his thumb. "Summoning jutsu!"

A small toad appears.

"Hey, you aren't a tadpole anymore!" Naruto says. "But I was trying to summon Gamabunta."

"Do you have any snacks?" asks the toad. "Gamabunta's my Dad - I'm Gamakichi."

Gaara facepalms. "If you must fight me, at least summon a decent toad."

"Hey, don't dis my bonded summon!" Naruto snaps back. "I forgot I need Kurama's help to summon the big toads."

Gaara feels a strong desire to bang his head against a wall. There are no walls around, so he makes do with a rather hard tree.

Just smash him to pieces! Roars Shukaku.

Okay, agrees Gaara. For once he feels no blood lust, just frustration. He sends his sand at Naruto and the little toad.

Naruto yelps, scoops up the toad and jumps out of the way. Then Naruto tries to prank Gaara.

Tries.

The pranks don't make it past the sand.

"Damn it!" Naruto yells.

"My dad would say #### it!" adds the toad.

"Your Dad!" Naruto facepalms. Then summons a toad the size of a bijuu.

"The #### is going on here?" demands the Toad.

That's a nice mouth that toad's got, comments Shukaku. Let me out: I don't want him swearing like that in front of my little jinchuuriki!

Alright, agrees Gaara. But since when did you care about me?

Stupid human, mutters Shukaku, dismissing the question.

Gaara lets Shukaku out and they beat up the toad for a bit, Shukaku yelling, "Don't you dare use that kind of language in front of my jinchuuriki!". Then the toad turns into the Nine Tailed fox. Naruto manages to jump onto Shukaku's head and breaks the jutsu by head butting Gaara. The Sand never saw it coming.

Next thing Gaara knows, the toads are gone and he is tied up in an orange rope and is wearing a pair of fake raccoon ears, a fake raccoon tail and a lot of leaves. "I need to have a very serious talk with you," says Naruo, crossing his arms.

"Leave me alone!" snaps Gaara.

"Tell me, are you completely alone? Does anyone care about you?" Naruto demands.

"I already told you: I have no one, that's why I was able to get strong," explains Gaara. "I have no one, so no one can hold me back."

"Wrong!" Naruto slaps Gaara. "You have two siblings who will risk their lives to protect you. They love you, Gaara. And when they stopped to face me in order to give YOU the chance to get away, they knew they would fight losing battles. But they fought me anyway. And before your fight with Sasuke do you know what Temari said to him?"

Gaara shakes his head.

"She said 'If you kill my little brother, you are dead.' Your sister will protect you. AS YOUR SISTER, NOT YOUR BODYGUARD! So you are wrong, you don't have no one. You have them."

Gaara stares up at Naruto. His mind flashes back to times when his siblings were annoyed with him, or afraid of him. For the first time he sees: at those times, they had good reason to be annoyed or afraid. He did threaten to kill them on a regular basis, after all. And he did leave sand all over the house. And it is his fault the washing machine broke.

"And about your strength;" continues Naruto. "It isn't your strength, it is Shukaku's. As strange as it sounds, he is there for you too. So is the chakra inhabiting the sand in the gourd. Who's chakra is it anyway?" Naruto shrugs. "My strength comes from my desire to protect others. I get stronger when I protect others, not myself! Think about this Gaara. Think about it long and hard." Then Naruto drags him away, back to the village, stopping to collect his similarly trussed up siblings on the way.

On the roof of the Chunin Exams Arena, Itachi and the Hokage stand, watching the Akatsuki (who all have a grudge against Orochimaru and therefore all came to kick his butt) capture the Sand and Sound ninjas. Although admittedly, quite a few of the Sound were dead and most of the Sand surrendered when they saw Sasori. In the midst of the frey, Jiraiya and his toads were fighting the snake summons who had appeared in the village.

Suigetsu appears on the roof beside Itachi. "Hey Itachi," he says excitedly. "Look over there!" Itachi looks in the direction Suigetsu is pointing, as does the Hokage and the assembled ANBU. They see a toad the size of a bijuu fighting, well a bijuu. The toad assumes the form of the Nine Tails and subdues the bijuu.

"Is that Jiraiya sensei over there?" asks Konan flying down to land beside Itachi.

"No, Jiraiya's over there," says Kisame, appearing nearby. He points to where Jiraiya and his toads are fighting the last of Orochimaru's summons.

"The battle is won," reports Sasori, gliding up to the group on the roof.

Deidara jumps down beside him, and lets his clay bird explode. "The Sound and Sand are totally subdued."

"The Sand surrendered once they learned their Kazekage did not order the invasion," reports Kakazu, appearing beside the Hikage. "When do we get paid?"

"I have made many sacrifices for the glory of Jashin," boasts Hidan, leaping onto the roof, covered in blood and holding his left arm in his right hand. "Can you reattach this for me, please Kakazu?"

"I hope you only killed Sound ninja like our contract said," Says Lord Pein as the six paths of Pein appear on the roof with the steadily growing group.

Nagato wheels up, being pushed by Karin. "So the mission was a success, then?" he asks.

"Not quite," admits Itachi. "I scared off Orochimaru too quickly to get any information out of him."

"That's a pity."

"HEY GUYS!" Naruto and his team are back with Sasuke and the Sand Siblings. "We caught the Sand sibs!" The Akatsuki burst into laughter at the young ninja's appearances. The three young ninjas blush in embarrassment.

"Who summoned the giant toad?" asks the Hokage.

"Oh, I did," says Naruto. "With Kurama's help of course! Gaara's Sand made it pretty hard to prank him." Then his whole face lights up. "PERVY SAGE! DID YOU SEE ME AND GAMABUNTA BEAT UP SHUKAKU!" he runs past the group of assembled S-Rank Ninjas and jumps on the newly appeared Toad Sage.

"AAK! Get off me kid!" Jiraiya yells from under his godson. "I didn't see: I was fighting Orochimaru's snake summons!"

"That pussy can summon?" Naruto sounds rather surprised.

Sasuke is staring down Suigetsu, and Karin is chatting happily with Sakura.

"Jiraiya sensei?" says Nagato nervously.

Jiraiya pushes Naruto off him and gets back to his feet. "Nagato?" he stares at Nagato. Then he sees Konan. "Konan! I heard you were all dead!"

"Well, we aren't! Yahiko is!" says Nagato.

"It seems we have a lot of catching up to do."

"Wait! You guys know each other?" Naruto says, looking from Jiraiya to Konan and Nagato and back again.

To Be Continued...